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Submitted by: Megan

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Your straw bale garden plants really need lots of food and water. Those vegetables you're growing are all big feeders, so will need a liquid fertilizer about every week or two at least. Miracle Grow does do an organic fertilizer now, but previously it was chemicals – to be avoided. Compost tea, worm tea, liquid seaweed are all good organic fertilizers to use to boost growth on fast growing vegetables. When starting off with straw bale gardening, it's important to have a good dollop of compost/soil to plant or sow your plants or seeds in initially. Straw bales are fun and absolutely interesting and productive &mdash; if you do it right. You have to be much more diligent with watering for a start. Possibly your straw bales did a 'hot' compost on you? This can kill plant roots. Have a read of the <a href="http://www.no-dig-vegetablegarden.com/straw-bale-gardening.html">Straw bale gardening page here.</a>

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Submitted by: Anonymous

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This is my first time gardening in straw bales too. How often do you water your vegetables planted in the straw bales? From what I've read straw bales don't hold moisture and thus dry out quicker than regular soil so you may need to water more often. Depending upon sun exposure and air temp your straw bales may need to be watered two or three times a day. I've also read that wrapping landscape fabric around the bales helps keep the moisture from evaporating so quickly. For my bales I have a drip irrigation system on a battery powered timer. Each plant has its own little dripper so the water goes right to its roots. Good luck!

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